2002 – 2006retired
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“Built for classrooms, shaped like a friendly toaster, gone but never graded down”
“First 64 bits on the desktop, last of the PowerPC greats — gone but still cheeze-grater shaped.”
The Power Mac G5 was a series of personal computers Apple sold from 2003 to 2006, and when it arrived it was the most powerful machine in the Macintosh lineup. Apple marketed it as the world's first 64-bit desktop computer, and it wore the company's first anodized aluminum alloy enclosure — a look people clearly took to. It was also one of only three Apple machines to run the PowerPC 970 CPU, alongside the iMac G5 an
After three generations, the G5 was discontinued on August 7, 2006, as part of Apple's transition to Intel processors, with the Mac Pro stepping into its place. Its successor kept a variation of the G5's enclosure design for seven more years, making it one of the longest-lived designs in Apple's history. The machine retired, but its silhouette stuck around well after it did.
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“Built for classrooms, shaped like a friendly toaster, gone but never graded down”
“The colorful laptop with a handle, gone but still opening like a lunchbox in our hearts”
“White plastic, big heart: the people's Mac went home smiling.”